In All Things.......

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

If you have a love for vintage things, well....you have come to the right place. We have a really good time each and every week!!!
If you are new to this party, please take the time to read and follow the instructions for participating in Vintage Thingies Thursday, click HERE. I try and keep things fairly simple, so please make sure you follow the instructions. Please onlyONE link per week. Lastly, if you link in, LINK back to my blog, so everyone can see all of the vintage goodies on display that day. If you don't link back here, they won't know who to visit......thanks so much.

........don't always flock together.....All I can say is what a week. It all started last Friday when all was right with the world, the birds were busy singing, the sun was shining....you know the days I am speaking of....almost perfect.

....until the buzzards started circling when I checked my email via my phone. I had a couple of emails from blogging and online friends saying they had received a suspicious email from me and wanted to check to see if I had actually sent it or if not, let me know my email had been HACKED........I promise at that exact moment...but birds stopped singing and fled to friendlier lands....far away.

To sum up the nightmare....

One, my email was hacked....may still be and most likely is. It is my yahoo email that I use for my blog and everything else personal. I have had that email for YEARS. Well, once they hacked into my email (How I don't know) somehow I could not longer send emails or respond to any emails at all.

Two, I changed my password, several times. Nothing. Spent hours on the phone with people I could not have understood had I been looking them in the face. Seriously. I shake my head to the fact there is no such thing as speaking to a IT tech anywhere in the United States.

Third, I opened up a gmail email and changed everything on my blog to that email. I have no access to my address book from the old one. So IF you get an email from me via a yahoo email....delete it. I will only be using Gmail from now on. It is a mess....I hate it. I had saved emails from special people who are no longer here and who have passed on. . I have been sick over losing some of those precious words that I have saved.

Lastly, is to take the computer in for a clean up and reinstall. Another pain in the you know what. But...I guess I need to do that. Seriously, I AM NOT THAT INTERESTING....why in the world would someone want to hack MY email??? I guess they are interested in vintage goodies, sewing stuff, recipes, and a little family gossip thrown in for good measure. All I can say is they need to get a life....and stay out of mine.

After a stressful week, this little bird in a basket came home with me one day while I was out looking for "thingies" that I don't need....ahem. I liked it, and it was a good buy, and a reminder that the birds will be singing again soon.....after I decide to let go of the fact of losing my personal email and all the personal things that I had saved there. I am still sick over it, but nothing can be done about it now..........but those nasty ole email hacking, stealing buzzards better fly to other grounds...this ole crow is still mad and still has her feathers all ruffled and that is NOT a good thing !!

I wondered if that had happened when I got a strange email from you. Sorry for all your cyber losses. Computers can be so frustrating. Worse yet is my daughter's bank account got compromised. Luckily the bank caught it and reimbursed her the money. Whew.

You did have a bad week! I hope you get everything straightened out soon. The loss of your saved email is sad. I was out shopping before Christmas and my credit card was turned down, I was so embarrassed,. I went straight to my bank and they found my card number had been stolen, hacked into through bank records. They were doing me a favor after all. The bank reissued my card with a new number. Thanks dear for hosting.

I have gotten wierd emails the last few months from yahoo accounbts...including my daughter in law. Terrible! I have a yahoo, and I suppose I'd better close it....Love your little birdie...so cute! Hang in there!Ruth

Sorry for your troubles Suzanne! It hasn't happened to me, but to a couple of my friends, and I got those weird looking emails from them with a strange link..delete those as fast as you can! If you click on the link, you get the virus too. So sad these no-accounts don't have something positive to do! Love your sweet bird. Joining in this week. Pam

Oh Suzanne I'm so so sorry! I understand that sick feeling over losing stuff like that---my husband just had to erase everything on his computer to fix a problem and there were years of pictures stored on there! Sure hope you week gets better!

I'm hosting my Homemaking Linkup Weekend and would love to have you join, if you'd like!

I'm so sorry that happened to you Suzanne. I know it's no fun. Our bank informed us Monday that our online accounts at the bank had been "compromised"! Talk about a nightmare, today is Thursday and it still is not fixed completly! I want to jump in the river and drown right about now! And I agree, I think sometimes hackers do this just to show they can! Dorothy

You are right...anytime a computer problem happens in a pain in the you know what. On a brighter side, your Ucagco Birdie Basket is wonderful...especially since it has such a nice foil label. Thanks for hosting VTT...there's a message for you on my post for today.